Georgetown Garden Tour Q&A, Tips from the Hosts, Garden Guide

May 10, 2023

In honor of the upcoming Georgetown Garden Tour, we spoke with three home owners hosting the tour this year. They shared their gardening inspirations, best advice and favorite gardens around […]

ANC2E’s ‘Elevator Presentations’ Helps Keep to Agenda

May 8, 2023

Faced with a huge agenda of important issues, news and announcements affecting Georgetown, Burleith and Hillandale, presented by dozens of officials, advocates and explainers, along with the memory of the last meeting […]

ANC2E Commissioners Offer Goals for 2023 

January 17, 2023

Five new Advisory Neighborhood Commissioners joined the Georgetown-Burleith-Hillandale ANC2E, which elected Elizabeth Miller as Chair and Gwen Lohse as Vice Chair. The two new commissioners representing Georgetown University were elected as […]

Volta Park Fall Fest Steps Up Its Games for the Kids

October 17, 2022

Volta Park’s Fall Festival returned Oct. 15 to a sunny, beautiful Saturday of friends, family, fun and food. This year, organizers, the Friends of Volta Park, stepped up their game […]

Closing Pools Before Labor Day a Travesty  

September 14, 2022

It was an exceptionally hot August and early September this summer as families and residents tried to enjoy the last of the vacation and home days before heading back to […]

Kids Korner: Georgetown Summers

July 13, 2022

Georgetown in the summer is the BEST!   Rose Park Farmers Market: Every week I ask to go. I like the cherry pie filling (we made a few pies), fudge brownies, homemade […]

Loving Mother Earth at Volta Park

April 25, 2022

For Earth Day, the Citizens Association of Georgetown began the Orthodox Easter morning with a neighborhood clean-up and scavenger hunt, partnered with Georgetown University, on April 24.  With earth-loving booths […]

Mapping Georgetown: A Georgetowner Leaving Her Mark

March 28, 2022

“Where flowers bloom, so does hope.”  ~ Lady Bird Johnson One day, as my mom and I were picking weeds along the alley bricks, I decided to give [the alley] […]

Beautiful Fundraiser for La Jolie Bleue

March 3, 2022

Many Georgetowners may remember La Jolie Bleue, the Mediterranean bakery on Wisconsin Ave. Unfortunately, the eatery, like many others, fell to the pandemic last year. The shop had grown steadily, […]

ANC 2E February Report  

February 7, 2022

Update on Ward 2 Recreational Parks    In the ANC’s February virtual public meeting, Department of Public Recreation’s (DPR) Chief of External Affairs, Tommie Jones, provided an update on Ward 2 […]